Excerpt from Westminster Verses It is said that he could read when he was two years old, but there were distractionsin the shape of a garden and a pony, which prevented him from becoming too much of a bookworm. The pony was perhaps the ultimate cause of a fund of knowledge which in later life was a marked characteristic of]. S., for there are many great houses within an easy ride ofstanwick, and great houses suggest a curiosity about great families. At any rate j.s. Was always interested in pedigrees, especially such as ...
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Excerpt from Westminster Verses It is said that he could read when he was two years old, but there were distractionsin the shape of a garden and a pony, which prevented him from becoming too much of a bookworm. The pony was perhaps the ultimate cause of a fund of knowledge which in later life was a marked characteristic of]. S., for there are many great houses within an easy ride ofstanwick, and great houses suggest a curiosity about great families. At any rate j.s. Was always interested in pedigrees, especially such as were somehow connected with Northamptonshire. I once told him that his ape-like ancestor, 'probably arboreal, ' must have lived up a genealogical tree, but he was not to be chaffed out of his predilection. When he started to recite a pedigree, his face grew serious and he told us who married whom and who she was with as much solemnity as if he was reading the lessons in church. The schoolmaster is none the worse for a little noticeable oddity, and this fondness for pedigrees was]. S.'s harmless eccentricity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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